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Indeed, the Woman in White curators believe Whistler's white-clad series may have been inspired by Jean-Baptiste Greuze's painting La Cruche Casse (1771),"with its depiction of fair young flesh and a silky, disarrayed white dress," as MacDonald's book describes it